The time when Gao Yihuan came to southern Henan can be said to be quite timely, if it was a few days later, Nanyang might have been captured by the Qing army.

Under the onslaught of the Qing army, Gao Yihuan's 60,000 Wei troops left in southern Henan suffered nearly half of the casualties and were on the verge of collapse.

Although the Qing army suffered heavy losses in the siege, most of the deaths were the Jiangbei surrendered army, but the Eight Banners and the old green battalion soldiers did not suffer many losses, and the situation was already very bad.

Just a few days ago, there were two Wei army generals, with nearly 1,000 people surrendered to the Qing army, resulting in the fall of the military village of Chaya Mountain, Jin Shenghuan only led more than 3,000 remnants, fled to Xianghe Pass, if not Bai Wang led the troops to reinforce, one step into Nanyang, maybe Jin Shenghuan also surrendered.

At this time, Gao Yihuan led 60,000 horses, plus 10,000 Bai Wang, who entered Nanyang through Wuguan, Nanyang Mansion suddenly had 70,000 more fresh troops, and immediately stabilized the defense line.

Duoduo was waiting for Gao Yihuan in Xuzhou, but he didn't want Gao Yihuan to go directly to Nanyang, his expectations were disappointed again, and the whole person became furious.

Gao Yihuan's prediction was good, and under Duoduo's annoyance and shame, the Qing army launched another onslaught.

The offensive and defensive battle in southern Henan, which had just stopped for two days, became hot again and entered a white-hot state.

At this time, when the Qing army was fighting with the Wei army, the battle between the Qing army and the Ming army had basically stopped.

In the city of Nanjing, on a flower boat on the Qinhuai River, Hou Fangyu was talking with Fu Yiji, an envoy sent by the Qing court.

If you talk about this kind of thing, you can't make a noise if you talk about it well, and if you don't talk about it well, you will have to bear infamy, so the bigwigs in the Nanjing court are not willing to get involved in this matter.

The Qing court sent envoys over, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng didn't want to fight, but they were afraid that something would go wrong, so they thought about it and finally decided to let the Donglin Party do it.

Politics is like this, before Ma Ruan and Donglin were still incompatible, they fought inextricably, but as Donglin lost power and the imperial party rose rapidly, Ma Ruan found the Donglin party again.

Negotiation of peace was a common proposition of Ma Ruan and Dong Lin earlier, and later Ma Ruan saw that public opinion was surging and changed to the main battle, but in fact, they were not a firm main battle faction.

Since the start of the Jiangbei War, one of the four towns in Jiangbei has been besieged, and two towns have surrendered to the enemy.

At this time, they re-found Donglin, who had become a rat crossing the street, and wanted them to preside over the peace matter, but the Donglin bigwigs were not stupid, they knew that this matter was not easy to do, so they didn't want to participate, so as not to ruin their reputation.

At first, the Donglin Party did not take the liberty of agreeing, but discussed the pros and cons of this matter.

First of all, this matter, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, it must be infamous, and since it is infamous, it must be beneficial, otherwise who will take such a job.

This point makes the Donglin bigwigs very scruples, afraid that they will be like the Chongzhen Dynasty again, if they do something, they will not be able to please them, and they will be sold if they mess up.

It's not impossible to be Qin Hui, but at least you must have the same treatment as Qin Hui.

Although it was an opportunity for Donglin to preside over the peace, several bigwigs were quite cautious, and they had to find out the attitude of the emperor and the court first.

At this time, Zhu Cihong also needed to take a breath, after all, the gap between the Ming army and the Qing army was there, but the emperor could not clearly express his intentions, so he released some information through other means for the courtiers to ponder.

Of course, if you figure out the emperor's intentions and do things well for the emperor, you will naturally get the emperor's reward.

This is an unspoken rule for thousands of years, and Zhu Cihong's performance is much stronger than Chongzhen.

As a result, some changes soon took place in the Nanjing court, first of all, several Donglin Party cadres were reinstated, and secondly, Qian Qianyi's crimes were commuted. Although he is still in the prison cell, it is certain that as long as the Donglin Party handles things well, it will be a matter of time before he is released from prison.

With these signals, the Donglin bigwigs understood what the emperor meant, but the bigwigs are the bigwigs, all of them are monkey spirits, they can make suggestions, but they can't charge into battle, where can they go on their own shirtless.

It became a difficult problem to send someone to contact the Qing envoy, and several people went to visit Qian Qianyi in prison and talked about it, and finally Qian Qianyi made a decision and said: "The old man looks at Hou Fangyu of the Restoration Society is good, and he can be entrusted with important tasks." ”

Hou Fangyu is the son of Hou Xun, Gen Hongmiaozheng, who was an activist of the Restoration Society earlier, and the young man has breaking power, so he just used it as a gunman.

With Qian Qianyi's recommendation, everyone immediately went to find Hou Fangyu, and after checking, they learned that Hou Fangyu was implicated in the Huguang Incident and had been locked up for more than half a year.

If the talk is good, then continue, if the talk is not good, it doesn't matter, after all, the level is low, and you can give it up at any time.

Fu Yijian was the new champion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the first champion after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he was sent by the Qing court to Nanjing, to make contact with the Ming Dynasty, and wanted to follow the example of Song Jin and sign a contract.

At this time, Hou Fangyu stood at the bow of the boat, enjoying the freedom after being released from prison, and sighed in his heart.

Fu Yijian walked over with this glass of wine, and said with a smile: "Brother Chaozong, how do you feel?" ”

"Brother Yu Pan, this time I was pitted. If this thing gets out, I will become a national thief, and I will have no face to see people. Hou Fangyu smiled bitterly.

Fu Yi gradually said with a straight face: "Brother Chaozong, it's not right for you to say that, didn't you scold me?" You don't have the face to see people, so don't I have no shame on myself? The change of dynasty is caused by history, and no one is powerless to stop it. ”

Fu Yi's eyes gradually deepened, looking at the stone city in the distance, as well as the lights of Qinhuai, "The general trend of the world is that there will be chaos for a long time, and chaos will be ruled for a long time, starting from the Yellow Emperor and thousands of years to the present. This is the number of days, you and I have no power to change, what we scholars can do is to alleviate the suffering of the people and avoid the harm caused by the war. The two families ceased fighting and each withdrew its troops, which is a matter of great merit! This kind of thing, Brother Chaozong, don't say it, whether it is known by the Qing Dynasty or by the dignitaries of your country, you will be in trouble. ”

Hou Fangyu glanced at him and said with a smile: "Brother Yu Pan is really a good tongue, no wonder he can be reused by the north." It's just that even if this truce is beneficial to the people and is a matter of immeasurable merit, Brother Yu Pan can't put Yangzhou and Jiangbei's state capitals under the name of the north! ”

"Hahaha~" Fu Yijian snorted, "This can be talked about again!" ”

The two were talking and laughing, and a beautiful woman came out of the flower boat, came over, and said with a smile: "Hou Gongzi, Fu Gongzi, what are you talking about?" ”

The beauty is a famous prostitute who has recently become famous on the Qinhuai River, her stage name is Yu Xiang'er, fresh as an orchid, gentle as jade, and proficient in poetry and songs, and can also sing and compose songs, especially the song is different, and soon opened her name on the Qinhuai River, and the limelight overshadowed the former Bayan.

Fu Yi's eyes lit up when he was standing up, stepped forward to block Hou Fangyu's body, and smiled very gracefully: "Fu is discussing poetry with Brother Chaozong!" ”

Yu Xiang'er covered her mouth and chuckled, her voice was like a lark, "Fu Gongzi is erudite and knowledgeable, and his poetry attainments should be the best." ”

Fu Yi gradually thinned his triangular face, his eyes narrowed into a line when he smiled, and the two black hairs in a black mole on his lips trembled, and his appearance was very obscene, but he was pretentious, and after hearing Yu Xiang'er's praise, he immediately danced with his eyebrows: "Of course, Fu can write poetry at the age of seven and paint at the age of eight, and he has a deep foundation in poetry." It's windy here, if Miss Xiang'er wants to know more about it, you might as well go to my room and talk, let's dig deep~"

(Thanks to the brothers of the national army, Zhou Shengzu for their rewards, asking for monthly passes, recommending, and subscribing.) I practiced in the afternoon and updated it in the evening. ）

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